Hershel Burgess
American football player
| Texas A&M Aggies | |
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| Position | Fullback |
| Class | 1929 |
| Career history | |
| College | Texas A&M (1926–1928) |
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Hershel E. Burgess was a college football player. He was a prominent running back for the Texas A&M Aggies,[1][2][3] a star on the national champion 1927 team.[4] He was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.[5] There is a physics chair at Texas A&M named in his honor, the Hershel E. Burgess '29 Chair in Physics.[6]
References
- ^ McEachern, Jenna (July 2008). 100 Things Longhorns Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die. ISBN 9781617490125.
- ^ "CONTENTdm" (PDF).
- ^ "RECAP: 1927 Texas A&M v Texas". Archived from the original on 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
- ^ "1927". My Aggie Nation.
- ^ "Texas A&M University".
- ^ "Gifts & Endowments – TAMU Physics & Astronomy".
External links
- Hershel Burgess at Find a Grave
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1927 Texas A&M Aggies football—national champions
- Hershel Burgess
- Klepto Holmes
- Joel Hunt
- Jules V. Sikes
- Head coach: Dana X. Bible
- Assistant coach: Charles Bassett
- Roswell G. Higginbotham
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